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It's just full of people talkin' about computers-game and stuff! About its softwares and hardwares and musics and mods and sales and stories and designs and bigguns and littluns and how some of them are fun and some of them are pretty and some of them are both of those things. Some people have even played one!

Indeed I feel that I might click any thread at random from the first page and stand a good chance of finding it nice to read. Sometimes in the past I would look at all the threads and think, "all the threads are boring" but I don't feel that way about the current set of threads. They are loomed into a luminescent tapestry of e-distraction about all the best and most entertaining executables. Thanks, internet.

The Secret of Gargoyle Manor, a browser point-and-click adventure about retrieving your lost hat whatever the cost, is something you could play!

The Welcome/Notifications/Logout button panel thing is kind of hard to read. On my screen it has shifted down and to the right so that, while it appears placed with intention and lines up nicely, it is white on light-gray instead of white on red. Maybe it's some sort of error or maybe it's an intentional change, but in any case it's hard to read.

I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardustís Music Sounds Better With You. Thereís lots of fog. --tomeoftom

The Welcome/Notifications/Logout button panel thing is kind of hard to read. On my screen it has shifted down and to the right so that, while it appears placed with intention and lines up nicely, it is white on light-gray instead of white on red. Maybe it's some sort of error or maybe it's an intentional change, but in any case it's hard to read.

Yay! Now it's back in a readable place. :) Thanks!

I think of [the Internet] as a grisly raw steak laid out on a porcelain benchtop in the sun, covered in chocolate hazelnut sauce. In the background plays Stardustís Music Sounds Better With You. Thereís lots of fog. --tomeoftom

PLEASE let new users create threads. This is the kind of restriction that creates an insular community. Do people have to prove their worthy before being allowed a basic tool to any Internet forum? There won't be total anarchy if anyone can create new threads.

I wanted to create a thread letting people know the insane levels of invasion of privacy that PunkBuster allows itself, a software that you'll have installed if you played games like Red Orchestra 2, the last three AssCreed games, pretty much any Battlefield game. Punkbuster will run even when the game's not running, it is allowed taking screenshots of anything. I found it running on my PC, even though the last time I played a game with it was five months ago, RO2.

Seriously though, lift this restriction. Just be more welcoming to users.

Also, put a "forgot my password" option somewhere in the login screen. I couldn't find it in there. Then I kept getting login info wrong, and of course keeping in line with the strict nature of the forums, I was only allowed 5 chances to get it wrong. Meanwhile, no option to reset my password or anything similar anywhere in sight. IIRC, I found this option in the "register" page, completely inappropriate place. But maybe it was somewhere in the login page and I couldn't find it.

PLEASE let new users create threads. This is the kind of restriction that creates an insular community. Do people have to prove their worthy before being allowed a basic tool to any Internet forum? There won't be total anarchy if anyone can create new threads.

It's not to prove worthiness -- it's to give the powers that be a chance to find & eliminate spammers before they cause too much havoc. Before this restriction there were in the region of 40-50 spam threads created daily, versus 1-2 per month now.

Well then try to improve your security against spambots. I've been to busier forums where I find zero spamming and that have laxer security features, at least when it comes to restricting user activity. I know, "try to improve you security against spambots" is easier said than done. Probably would involve restructuring everything.